The CIA and American Democracy by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
The role of the CIA is crucial for America's security and for the prospects of world peace. Democracy depends on secret intelligence for its survival, yet the relationship between the two has always been controversial and, at times, mutually harmful. In this history of the CIA based on verifiable documents and on scholarly sources, Jeffreys-Jones examines the agency as an institution operating within a political context. Providing an account of the CIA's shifting relationship with the American public, Congress, and presidents, Jeffreys-Jones's assessment of the CIA and the factors that increase or diminish its efficacy provides a look at an issue of importance to all.Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is Emeritus Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard, the Free University of Berlin, and Toronto. The founder of the Scottish Association for the Study of America, of which is he the current honorary
president, he has also published widely on intelligence history, including The CIA and American Democracy (1989) and The FBI: A History (2007).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300050172 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300050178 |
| Title | The CIA and American Democracy |
| Author | Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 1991-01-23 |
| Number of pages | 350 |
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